The Western Front Diaries: the Anzacs' own story, battle by battle by King Jonathan

Author:King, Jonathan
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: HIS027000, HIS027090, BIO008000
Publisher: Scribe Publications Pty Ltd
Published: 2015-06-23T16:00:00+00:00

When accurate, Allied shelling could even destroy reinforced concrete pillboxes built by the Germans as their ultimate defence.

On the German side, when the Allies detonated their mines, Major Walter Kranz, watching in disbelief from the safety of the second German line, said the explosion ‘looked like 19 gigantic roses with carmine petals, or enormous mushrooms which rose majestically out of the ground and then split into pieces with a mighty roar, sending up multi-coloured columns of flame mixed with a mass of earth and splinters high in the sky’.

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